{"id":15577,"date":"2021-12-04T22:46:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=15577"},"modified":"2021-12-04T22:46:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T03:46:41","slug":"omicron-variant-may-have-picked-up-a-piece-of-common-cold-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=15577","title":{"rendered":"Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus &#8211; possibly one that causes the common cold &#8211; present in the same infected cells, according to researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/healthcare-pharmaceuticals\/omicron-variant-may-have-picked-up-piece-common-cold-virus-2021-12-03\/\">Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Omicron variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 likely acquired at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[169,998,827,266],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-omicron","tag-maybe-bad","tag-maybe-good","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}